Logos (lo´gos´,
lòg´òs´) noun1.Philosophy. a. In pre-Socratic
philosophy, the principle governing the cosmos, the source of this principle,
or human reasoning about the cosmos. b. Among the Sophists, the topics
of rational argument or the arguments themselves. c. In Stoicism, the active,
material, rational principle of the cosmos; nous. Identified with God,
it is the source of all activity and generation and is the power of reason
residing in the human soul.2.Judaism. a. In biblical
Judaism, the word of God, which itself has creative power and is God's
medium of communication with the human race. b. In Hellenistic Judaism,
a hypostasis associated with divine wisdom.3.Theology. In Saint John's
Gospel, especially in the prologue (1:1-14), the creative word of God,
which is itself God and incarnate in Jesus. In this sense, also called
Word.

[Greek.]

Logos

Logos, in ancient and medieval
philosophy and theology, the divine reason that acts as the ordering principle
of the universe. Sixth-century BC Greek philosopher Heraclitus asserted
that the world is governed by the Logos, a divine force
that produces order in the flux
of nature. In Stoicism of the 4th century BC, the Logos is conceived as
a rational divine power that directs the universe. Through the faculty
of reason, all human beings share in the divine reason. According to 1st-century
AD Jewish-Hellenistic philosopher Philo Judaeus, the Logos can be understood
as the Divine Wisdom that is inherently part of the world.

...the noosphere...no
longer served as a mere passive repository of human information
(the "Seas of Knowledge" which ancient Sumer
believed in) but, due to the incredible surge of charge from our electronic
signals and information-rich material therein, we have given it power to
cross a vast threshold; we have, so to speak, resurrected what Philo and
other ancients called Logos. Information has, then, become alive..."

Phillip K. Dick, in one
of his last novels, _Valis_,
discusses the long hibernation of the Logos. A creature of pure information,
it was buried in the ground at Nag Hammadi, along with the burying of the
Chenoboskion Library circa 370 A.D. As static information, it existed there
until 1947,
when the texts were translated and read. As soon as people had the information
in their minds, the symbiote
came
alive, for, like the mushroom
consciousness,
Dick imagined
it to be a thing of pure information. The mushroom consciousness is the
consciousness of the Other in hyperspace,
which means in dream
and in the psilocybintrance,
at the quantumfoundation
of
being, in the human future, and after death. All of these places that were
thought the be discrete and separate are seen to be part of a single continuum.
History is the dash over ten to fifteen thousand years from nomadism to
flying saucer, hopefully without ripping the envelope of the planet so
badly that the birth is aborted and fails, and we remain brutish prisoners
of matter.

"A more perfect Logos would
seem to be the result--a Logos able to regulate the activity of the ego
as it exists in the sum total of individuals living at any time.
It is like god; it is the human god. It is something that will happen
to human destiny sometime in the future, and because it will happen, it
is happening. Nothing is unannounced. The ontological mode of the
higher dimensions
into which humanity is being propelled is being anticipated by the singularity
that we call the wholly Other or the alien. The alien
is teaching something through its reinforcement schedule: It is preparing
us to confront the god facet of ourselves that our explorations into the
nature of life and matter are about to reveal."

from: _TRUE HALLUCINATIONS_
by Terence McKenna

Well, when I talk about the
Logos I always invoke Philo Judaeus, who introduced the concept of the
Logos into the Hellenistic world but who was unsatisfied with it and spent
a great deal of time talking about the more perfect Logos, the Logos that
goes from being heard to being seen without ever crossing over a definable
moment of transition. In a sense, my position is that all of history is
a making of the Logos more and more concrete. In the same way that McLuhan
saw print culture as replacing an earlier, eye-oriented manuscript culture,
my hope is that cyberdelic
culture is going to overcome the linear, uniform bias of print and carry
us into a realm of the visible Logos. I really believe that not only human
society is involved in what could be looked at as a conquest of dimensions
but that biology itself is, as well. This is the great overarching theme
of evolution---this
is why we go from being slime
mold to having binocular vision and bipedalism and then adding memory
and language
at the top end of animal organization. Itís because the thing which we
are, whether you call it bios or logos incarnate or whatever, is striving
to ascend to higher and higher dimensions.

- Terence McKenna

release _Word Made Flesh_ 7"
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MP3
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